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"The voice here is distinctive and mercurial – cool, intelligent yet engaged – the spirit of Larkin, perhaps, remerging, muscular and revitalised, in the 21st century." - Flarestack Pamphlet Prize Judges 2009
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Welcome to Cliff Forshaw's new website.
"...the Howlin' Wolf of Hull poetry..." georgiasam blog
On this website you’ll find poems – from published collections and work-in-progress – news about readings and forthcoming publications and, when I get around to it, my blog. There are reviews, excepts from my books and links to on-line work, collaborations, and other poets’ websites.
This is very much a work-in-progress, so please check back. I also write fiction, perform, and work in various visual media, and I hope to incorporate or link to paintings, film and other genres when time allows.
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Click here to see the extinct Thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger on film
Loop
Within the box, it growls, it twists,
scowls through its repertoire of tricks,
ignores the camera – or gurns up close, turns
again, to flop, to gnaw that paw-trapped bone.
It paces out its trap of light; one hundred reps,
while hindquarters zither bars of sun;
claws cage’s mesh, hangs stretched
as if to take the measure of itself.
And what we’ve got is what was shot:
short clips, fragments caught and stitched
together in a loop of black and white.
Nine lives? Not quite. It’s down. It’s out.
It’s on its feet and born again. Like a repetition
compulsion, like … like reincarnated light.
“Loop” first appeared in Poetry Wales. It is from the sequence Reincarnated Light which will appear as a chapbook from Happenstance Press later in 2010.
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